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You’re fired!:bad-news words for when you lose your job
→You’ve been late every day for the last two weeks, and you haven’t finished one project.You’re fired!
Holy smokes!:Wow!
→Holy smokes, my neighbor just won a thousand dollars!
old flame:a former boyfriend or girlfriend
→Susan was not happy when her boyfriend kept talking about hisold flame.
out of the frying pan and into the fire:going from a bad situation to a worse one
→She thought it was a bad day when the bus splashed her new skirt, but it wasout of the frying pan and into the firewhen she spilled hot coffee and burned herself.
fire off:write something quickly and send it off immediately
→When she read the article in the newspaper about the animal shelter, she wanted tofire off an e-mail to her friends to ask them to help.
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